Globe Electric Co. v. Union Leasehold Co.

Plaintiff, Globe Electric Company, a corporation (hereinafter referred to as the Globe Co.), has been for many years engaged in business as a wholesale dealer in electrical supplies, numbering among its patrons Burton Dinsmore, a contractor who specialized in the installation of electrical equipment. Defendant Mary H. Murray, a widow, during the year 1920 acquired the title to a tract of land on the corner of Third avenue and Union street, Seattle, her title being subject to a fifty year lease which provided for the erection by the lessee of a building which, at the termination of the lease,…